‘Midnight Flare’

Name:
‘Midnight Flare’
Seed parent:
‘Red Red’
Pollen parent:
‘Red Slippers’
Flower size:
average
Flower colour:
red
Type:

Harris

Year registered:
1989
Links:
Azalea Society of America Database
Deutsche Genbank Rhododendron

This variety is famed for it's very dark red flowers. Despite some satsuki genetics, this azalea is more similar to Kurume or Obtusum, but lacks foliage with a good autumn colour. It has been a good parent in hybridizing of new azaleas, in part of it's genetically heterozygous colour.

Midnight Flare Harris azalea flowers
Image credit: William C. Miller III
Midnight Flare Harris azalea flowers
Image credit: Carolyn Beck
Midnight Flare Harris azalea flowers
Image credit: Carolyn Beck
Hereditary Tree
‘Midnight Flare’
‘Red Red’‘Red Slippers’
‘Hino-red’‘Ward's Ruby’Andros x Parade‘Keisetsu’
Hino-Crimson x poukhanenseJames Gable x unknown‘Andros’‘Parade’
‘Hino-Crimson’R. yedoense var. poukhanense‘James Gable’‘Vittatum’‘Waraijishi’‘Ivory’‘Keisetsu’
‘Amoenum’‘Hinodegiri’‘Caroline Gable’‘Purple Splendor’R. mucronatumkaempferi x mucronatumR. mucronatum




Offspring:
‘Jim Thornton’, cross: ‘Midnight Flare’ x ‘Red Slippers’
‘Barry Sperling’, cross: ‘Haru-no-Hibiki’ x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Betty Ellen’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘John Brown’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Janet Miller’, cross: ‘Haru-no-Hibiki’ x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Robert Thau’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Sarah Jessica’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’